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Full-power digital · channel 26 · SPRINGFIELD, MA
| Facility ID | 25682 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| Community of licence | SPRINGFIELD, MA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 42.24167, -72.64861 |
| Effective radiated power | 345 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 418.8 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.westernmassnews.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 12
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
This website serves 2 stations. It is a network or group property, so the settings above reflect the owner's policy across all of them rather than a decision made for WGGB-TV.
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 794640 | 8 | LPD | |
| WWLP | 11 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| WGBY-TV | 13 | DTV | WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION |
| W18FM-D | 18 | LPD | |
| WSHM-LD | 20 | LPD | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| WFXQ-CD | 21 | DCA | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| WDMR-LD | 23 | LPD | NBC TELEMUNDO LICENSE LLC |
| WHTX-LD | 24 | LPD | ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC |
| WTXX-LD | 29 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| facility 793858 | 29 | LPD | |
| W32GT-D | 32 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WGGB-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WGGB-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.